Elk

I had a rented pasture about 7 miles from the house.  Six years in a row while I was off elk hunting elsewhere someone shot an elk either in that field or the neighbors place.  My cows would already be out of there but come spring I had serious fence repair to do.  And don't ask why I didn't shoot an elk there myself.  In the 15 years that I rented the place I only saw any elk there one time.  And that was about two months after season.

I knew an old dairy farmer who resorted to single strand electric fence.  He said it was enough to keep old dairy cows in and easier to fix when the elk knocked it down.  He said that every now and then he would get mad at the elk.  He would hop on a quad with a shotgun loaded with trap loads.  Off he would go tearing through the fields shooting the elk in the butt.  He said it made him feel better and the elk stayed away for a week or so.  Down side was there was a lot of fence repair to do.